Cream-separator.



H. W. REYNOLDS.

CREAM SEPARATOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6,1908.

Patented July 27, 19%.

HOWARD W. REYNOLDS, lOF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CREAM-SEPARATOR.

Speticationof Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, 1909.

Application led July 6,y 1908. `Serial No. 441,965. l

. `r To all whom 'it may concern:

e it known that i, Hosp-ino "i T. REYNOLDS.,

a citizen of the 'United States of America, Aresiding in the borough ot Manhattan, 1n

tlierountygof New ii'oik and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Cream-Separators,of which the following is a specilication, reference being had therein tothe accompanying draws' fi'lhis invention relates to a device for extracting cream from milk bottles, my object being to provide a device which will remove the cream or upper stratum of the liquid contents of a bottle or other receptacle ywith.- out disturbing the low-er stratum.

To this end my invention consists in the peculiar features and combination of parts more fully described hereinafter and pointed out inthe claims.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a sectional elevation of my device as applied to an ordinary standard milk bottle, some of the parts being shown in full lines, Fig. Z is a detail top view of the cap adapted to rest on the top of ar bottle, and Fig. 3, a detail view of a detlector for the inner end of a siphon tube.

ln removing cream from an ordinary` standard milk bottle, such as used for de livel-ing milk from house to house for domestic use, it is often difficult and inconvenient to separate and remove the cream which rises to the top Without slopping and losing part. of it, or without get-ting thin milk mixed with it. To overcome these troubles I use a siphon tubel having the general outlines of a U-tube and having one leg Q, which, for convenience,ywe will call the outer leg, inclined outwardly and downwardly to a. point below the level of the bottom of the inner leg 3. This inner leg is straight and adapted to stand in a vertical position relative tothe milk bottle in which it is to be inserted,v and its. lower end lies above the lower end of the outer inclined leg, whereby the cream after once'being started will continue to flow 'automatically and by gravity into a cup or other receptacle held under the outer end of the Siphon. The means by which the flow of the cream in the tube is started consists Aof a circular metal cap 4f which acts like a bellows 0n,the air in the bottle. The top of thiscap is provided with a circular depending `flange 5 provided with a circumferential outwardlyprojecting lip G around its lower edge. This cap is generally made larger than the top of a standard milk bottle. to which it is adapted to be applied so that it can be pressed down against. the resist-ance of a circular rubber diaphragm 5a stretched across the bottom or open side of the cap at with its edges drawn tightly over the peripheral lip Thus an air-tigl'it joint will be made in the act of pressing the cap down tightly' on the bottleto force the' crea-m out. This diaphragm contains a central perforation 7, and the cap together with the diaphragm constitute a cover adapted to rest removably on the rim of the bottle. The outer edge of the rubber diaphragm is provided with a contracting band 8, which when Athe diaphragm is. stretched across the bottom of the flange of the cap, will take over the periph-` -eral lip and hold the diaphragm taut. Said cap is provided with a concentric perforation l() 1n order to bring the inner Siphon, vleg closer to the slde of the bottle and both4 rlegs as closely together as feasible, and at-j thelsame time extend the outside leg far enough out to clear the bottle well and allow a cream receptacle to be held under it with greater facility. The straight or inner leg 3 of the tube passes through these two perforations, and is packed against' leakage of air by means of anintegra-l upturned sleeve 1l over which a packing gland 12 screws, a packing ring' '13 being interposed betweenv the gland and end of the sleeve.

.le is a vent which, when closed by the finger while the separator is applied to a bottle during the depression of the cap, will coijnpress the air already within the bottle, and pneumaticallyforce the cream up the tube andover the bend l5 at the top' thereof, and when the finger is removed from the vent the cream will continue to flow automatically out of the'bottle as previously stated, leaving only the. skim-milk or unde- 100 s -ired contents of the bottle behind.

In order to prevent milk instead of' cream from being drawn stra-ight up into the mouth of the inner tube, I provide a cupshaped delector 16 having a diameter 105-vl greater4 than thatof the tube. This de- .flector is held under the mouth of the tube by spring arms. l7'fastened to the bottom of the delector and adapted to enter the tube and to grip the walls to hold it in-l1u place. These. arms slide up iutothe tube until shoulders'lS thereon come 1ncontact with the edge o the tube and hold the deeetor u snt'cient distance nvvoy from the mouth to permit the cretini to flow in easilyA And when thus adjusted on the tube the nptlurned. edge '19 of 'the delector will lie in substantially the suine horizontal plane with that. of the lower end oi the tube, so that tht` therefore I do not limit myself to the exact construction herein Shown, but consider my self entitled to all such variations as Colne Within the Scope and Spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what lv claim aS new und deehe to secure by Letters Patent, `is.:

1. In a creamv separator for milk bottles and the'lilie,- a flanged cap having@ vent fund beingprovided with :i flexible dia.- pli'ragm which,Stretchesfucross the bottoni ot one,

the zinge and adopted to rest upon the top of the botti@ in combination with i Siphon tubewh'ich puSSeS tightly through the cap und loosely through the diaphragm.

i?. ln u cream separator or the like, 'the combination with u carp having u flexible diziphrngni etietohed across its lower portion :ind :i upted to loosely resty on the top of" uniilli bottleP in i-.oinl'nnzition with :L Siphon tube which passes tight-ly through und iis held by the cap.

'3. ln a cream separator for milk bottles :1nd thelile, the combination with :i cup provided with a downwardly hanging flange and having a flexible diaphragm stretched or Vdrawn across the lower portion thereof,

und being perfo 'ated centrally, and :i Siphon tube passing tightly through und Secured to sind cup.

l'n testimony whereof l ntlix in v Signature inpresence ot' two witnesses.

HO VARI) lV. RE n"YOLDS Witnesses mcSA G. Dn Bois, C. ll. Sonnonnnn. 

